Well fish smell after three days and we needed to get going to get our remaining 3 roads for the 15 Great Roads in America. Our next road is number 18 on our list, Great River Road Wisconsin, WI-35 Prairie du Chien to LaCrosse. We didn’t want to bother with dealing with Chicago, so we opted to take the Lake Express, a passenger and vehicle ferry boat from Muskegon Michigan to Milwaukee Wisconsin. The only challenge was we did not pre-purchase our tickets for the ferry and we wanted to catch the 10:15 AM ride instead of the 4:30 pm ride. Since it was a Wednesday we had a pretty good chance to get our tickets, but we needed to leave early to make sure we got to Muskegon by 9:00 am when they opened. So we had a scrapes of daylight departure time of wheels up at 6:00 am.
We had no traffic issues and arrived in plenty of time to get our tickets and take a break in the day to cross Lake Michigan. We do our own strapping down of the bikes but they do provide tiedowns.. It was a clear day and the water was calm for this boat to cruise across the lake at about 38 knots to arrive in Milwaukee in about 2 1/2 hours. Our departure was @10:15 and by 12:45 pm we were disembarking off and starting our ride to Prairie Du Chien. We end up staying at the Waterfront Hotel on the Mississippi river right off old town Prairie Du Chien where we find a Irish Pub for dinner as we prep for tomorrows ride.
Love the video – especially the crossing the water. And it’s pretty cool to see The Mitten (yesterday’s, too) and your path.
The weather gods are still smiling on you!